Performing alone - it's a very solitary experience. When you're in a band, when something amazing happens on stage you can look at each other, "Yeah! we're so locked in." Or if something goes wrong, you can look at each other and shrug and say, "Oops." If you're doing it by yourself, you reflect on it in a completely different way.
Aoife O'DonovanI could hunker down by myself and listen closely to mixes, but then to be able to have a sounding board of peers to get advice and feedback.
Aoife O'DonovanI've always wanted to be thrown into the ocean when I die - to be rowed out to sea and thrown overboard into the Atlantic.
Aoife O'Donovan